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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2015 Feb 21;33(17):2079–2085. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.02.027

Table 2.

Cost of different medical care outcomes.

Item Point estimatea
Hospitalization for patient with Intestinal Perforation 155.6
Hospitalization for patient without Intestinal Perforation 58.1
Outpatient care 4.3
a

Costs in 2014 US$. Costs assumed to have a lognormal distribution with (standard deviation) = μ(mean)/10 (where μ corresponds to the tabulated values), and were truncated at the 10th and 90th percentiles. Costs obtained via interview with medical superintendent at Kilembe Mines Hospital in Kasese District.